Drugdge either has bad taste of bad timing as Johnny Carson just passed away. He was a great talent, made Americans laugh for 30 years. I missed him after he retired, there's been nothing like him since. Rest in peace Mr. Carson, you helped millions of Americans feel good for a very long time, you will be sorely missed.

4 posted on 01/24/2005 1:46:16 AM PST by SeaBiscuit
(God Bless all who defend America and the rest can go to hell.)

Carson takes on Bush: "Can you believe this Enron mess? I love how his good friend 'Kenny Boy' suddenly turned into 'Mr. Lay'... Give me a break! It will be a long time before we ever understand what's going on behind that story."

Carson takes on Bush: "Can you believe this Enron mess? I love how his good friend 'Kenny Boy' suddenly turned into 'Mr. Lay'... Give me a break! It will be a long time before we ever understand what's going on behind that story."

The thing about Johnny Carson was, you could barely tell his politics. Sure, from the sounds of it, he was left of center. But what made him so great was, you couldn't tell. His jokes and so forth didn't give off some political spin that today's comics do. And other then this interview, Carson kept to himself and stayed out of the limelight. Unlike some of today's so-called entertainers.

He may not be perfect (of course) but he was still a great man.

21 posted on 01/24/2005 2:09:19 AM PST by Simmy2.5
(DUmmies in mourning. World is a better place.)

He tells Zehme that the only time he wished he was back on the air and not retired was during the Monica Lewinsky mess. "It's John. I regret it now," Carson said to Wright in a phone call. "I haven't seen such an abundance of material in my life!"

During their coverage yesterday, the Fox News entertainment reporter (forgot his name, but he used to sit in the third seat on Fox & Friends Weekend before he was replaced with Julian) said that Johnny was a big fan of Fox News Channel.

There is a very rare, as far as I know unavailable in video, of Carson's guest interview with JFK assassination researcher Jim Garrison. An audio file of parts of it is somewhere available on the net ( sniff around JFK Lancer)

A very solemn, strange episode. I need to dig up the excerpts and listen to it again.

Carson takes on Bush: "Can you believe this Enron mess? I love how his good friend 'Kenny Boy' suddenly turned into 'Mr. Lay'... Give me a break! It will be a long time before we ever understand what's going on behind that story."

I have remembered him saying this ever since he said it. I won't be too harsh in light of his death, but it is confounding that everyone was so quick to connect Bush to Lay, when the rise and beginning of the fall of Enron happened on Clinton's watch. When did Ken Lay stay at the White House? During the Clinton years. Who prosecuted the Enron principals? The Bush DOJ. But, by God, Bush gave him a nickname, so it's a Bush scandal.